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to admit the roots, into which they are placed; the earth having 

 previously made line is then filled in around them, and a 

 gentle watering given, in which situation they may remain 

 with safety, until planted. 



The holes in which it is intended to plant them, should, for 

 an ordinary sized nursery tree, be from two and a half to three 

 feet in diameter, and about the same depth; the earth from the 

 bottom should be thrown aside, and the place filled up with 

 good compost or black mould (no fresh stable manure should 

 be used in the compost). The tree should be planted one or 

 two inches deeper than it stood in the nursery, the roots and 

 fibres being spread out horizontally, and during the process of 

 filling in the earth, the tree should be shaken several times, so 

 as to admit the soil between the roots, and also to fill up any 

 cavities that might otherwise remain. The earth should then 

 be trodden down and gently watered; in a short time it will 

 have settled, and any hollows that may have formed, should be 

 filled up finishing by forming a basin around the trench to 

 receive the rain or watering which may be necessary to give 

 it, if the ensuing season should prove dry; to prevent the winds 

 from loosening the earth round the roots, the tree should be 

 secured to a stake by bands of straw. 



The proper season for transplanting trees in this latitude, is 

 from the middle of October to the first or middle of May. 

 Trees transplanted in autumn should have the roots a little 

 protected during the first and most trying winter. This pro- 

 tection may consist of a few inches of litter from the stable, 

 placed among their trunks and over their roots. Moss from 

 the meadows or evergreen boughs are, however, preferable 

 for delicate plants, as these substances being almost incorrupti- 

 ble, never injure what they were designed to protect. 



"We have observed," says the Genesee Farmer, "in regard 

 to transplanting fruit trees, that we have rarely lost one that 

 stood in cultivated ground, where the hoe was introduced 

 several times in the course of the summer; but, on the contrary, 

 where the trees were set in grassy land, or where the cultiva- 

 tion was neglected, our losses have been considerable. We 

 therefore advise in order to insure the safety of such as have 

 been planted out, either in the last autumn or this spring, to 

 have the ground well hoed round them once a month; and if 

 it be done every fortnight, it will be still better. The labour 

 will not differ very materially from hoeing a hill of corn. It 

 is worthy of notice, however, that the oftener it is done the 

 easier it is to do because the soil will be kept loose and mel- 

 low. 



"To water trees in that condition may sometimes be useful; 



